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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 12:48:01 JST 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana

Y'all do see that the point of 200 executive orders in a single day is just a DDoS on education, news, empathy, and activism, right?
You can't have 200 front page stories.
You can't care about 200 changes at once.
You can't learn about 200 changes at once.
You can't act in opposition to 200 changes at once.

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  Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 12:47:59 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
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  @revoluciana (un)fortunately 4 years is a long enough time to go through the list and handle things.
  
  This one can't be handled through the usual random emotionally driven activism, it needs to be carefully taken apart and managed with political activist sub-groups assigned per issue.
  
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  🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 12:48:00 JST 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
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  Furthermore, this is crisis manufacturing.
  If you're not familiar with Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine concept, which she articulated through her book by the same name, it would be good to familiarize yourself.
  It's a lot easier to take authoritarian control during crisis than in times of stability. A *lot* easier.
  Wiki for her book to learn more:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
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    The Shock Doctrine
    
    The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively. The book challenges the narrative that free market capitalist policies have been welcomed by the inhabitants of regions where they have been implemented, and it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake. Some reviewers claimed the book oversimplifies political phenomena, while others lauded it as a compelling and important...
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  Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:13:40 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
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  @revoluciana what can I say, I'm an optimist. :blobcat_daradara:
  
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  🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:13:42 JST 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
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  @Polychrome in the one hand, I feel what you're saying. On the other, I am not convinced there is a 4 year cycle anymore.
  
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